Lotto-winning sex offender from Uxbridge pleads not guilty

WORCESTER — A convicted sex offender accused of using money from lottery winnings to entice a young boy he'd later abuse over a four-year span pleaded not guilty Friday to child rape charges.

Daniel Snay, 62, of Uxbridge, appeared for his Worcester Superior Court arraignment via a video teleconference from the Worcester County House of Correction.

Snay was convicted of indecent assault and battery on a child in the 1970s and 1980s and later deemed a Level 3 sex offender, meaning he’s considered a high risk to re-offend.

In 2008, Snay won $10 million from a scratch-off ticket he purchased at a convenience store in Hopedale, and opted to receive annual payments of $500,000.

A Worcester Superior Court grand jury indicted Snay last month on criminal charges, including rape of a child and enticement of a child under 16.

According to police, the alleged victim said Snay had been continuously assaulting him from 2008 to 2012. Snay forced the boy to participate in sexual acts, inappropriately touched him and showed him various pornographic videos, court records show.

The boy described Snay as a friend of the family who would talk him into doing things and promised him gifts if he did them, according to court records.

Police have said Snay, who was arrested on March 16 in Uxbridge, used some of his winnings to entice the victim.

Superior Court Judge James Lemire set several terms should Snay be released on bail, including that he has no unsupervised contact with children under the age of 16 and he wear a GPS monitoring device.

After the arraignment, defense attorney Samuel Goldberg, of Cambridge, could be seen talking with members of Snay’s family outside the courtroom.

Goldberg said Snay has been held at the Worcester County House of Correction since March. Originally held on $5 million bail, in April Lemire reduced bail to $500,000 during a bail hearing.